Klamur
Dual Lookback Processor
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Description
Klamur is an always-on lookback recorder and loop processor. It keeps recording the last 90 seconds or so of whatever comes into it, so you can go back to something you just played, loop it and process it.
We designed it as an audio scratchpad and a sound design tool in one. You pick two loops out of the scratchpad audio, each with its own modulation, then smear them spectrally, mix them and send them through a dub echo. Use it as a looper or a glitch recorder, or to catch ideas that would be hard to play the same way twice.
Your input is written into the lookback buffer all the time. Each track loops its own part of the buffer and goes through its own SMUDGE, then SPLIT mixes the two tracks into the echo, which they share. BLEND sets the level of the loops against your live input.
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Lookback buffer
- PAUSE
- Klamur writes your input into its buffer all the time. Turn PAUSE past noon to stop writing and keep what you've captured; turn it back down to start recording again.
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Track 1
- LOOKBACK 1
- Sets where in the buffer track 1 starts reading, anywhere across its full length.
- WINDOW 1
- Sets how much of the material after that point loops, from a tiny slice to the rest of the buffer.
- SHUTTLE 1
- Shortens WINDOW 1 at random by varying amounts, so the loop points keep changing. Keep it slight, or turn it up for intense, faster variations.
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Track 2
- LOOKBACK 2
- Sets where in the buffer track 2 starts reading.
- WINDOW 2
- Sets how much of track 2 loops.
- SHUTTLE 2
- Shortens WINDOW 2 at random, independently of track 1.
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Smudge 1
- SMUDGE 1
- Blurs and smears the spectral components of track 1 over up to one second. Turn it up for extreme ambient textures and drones.
- ENABLE
- Switches SMUDGE 1 on or off. When it's off, track 1 plays unprocessed.
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Smudge 2
- SMUDGE 2
- Does the same for track 2, also over up to one second.
- ENABLE
- Switches SMUDGE 2 on or off.
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Split
- SPLIT
- Crossfades between track 1 and track 2.
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Echo
- ECHO
- Sets the delay time, from about 10 ms to one second. At the minimum the loops play almost undelayed.
- SIZE
- Sets the feedback, from a single slapback to long, spacey dub echoes.
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Master
- BLEND
- Sets the mix between your live input and Klamur's loops.
- GAIN
- Sets the output level, from silent up to double. Noon is unity.
Try thisPlay a phrase, then turn PAUSE past noon. Point the two tracks at different spots with LOOKBACK, add a little SHUTTLE to each and automate SPLIT, so phrases of the captured audio interleave.
In Studies
Klamur is in Studies Effects, under Spectral.
Saving audio
Klamur doesn't store its audio when you close the session. If you capture something you like, record Klamur's output to a track in your host.
Standalone
The standalone plugin, shown further down the page, pauses the buffer with a WRITING / PAUSED button. In Studies that's the PAUSE knob.
- Formats
- Studies: Audio Units, VST2 and VST3 on Mac, VST3 on Windows · Apple silicon native
- Systems
- Current macOS and Windows 10/11 x64
Standalone version
The original plugin with its own interface, as a one-time purchase.
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